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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Email facilitates communications. Guess what? His response?

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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

"We'll have our own Wikipedia!" Despite the newsletter articles, blog posts, press releases, and conference presentations, many "communities" are nothing more than a new version of the same old Intranet, only with shinier tools. The Social Media/Web 2.0/New The Intranet development team.

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They’re tasked with contacting bloggers about different initiatives, sending out story ideas and “press releases&# (hopefully with a social component, since those are preferred by many bloggers). The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. Keep the good stuff comin’, Tamar.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Marketing Tactics (SEOmoz): Jane Copand, the Web 2.0 guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0 Now check out the options you have for desktop publishing on WordPress, or do what I do and just stick to the web interface. 25 Headline Formulas that Have Plagued and Blessed Web 2.0

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

5 Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Search Traffic (Search Engine People): In Glen Allsopp’s guest post for Search Engine People, he says that you can increase your blog’s search engine traffic by applying some tactics to old (already published) blog posts. I published a social media marketing book. Answers Yahoo!

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I didn’t publish this right when I started writing it in January because it wasn’t a polished piece. I published a book, which, ironically, I scored through blogging. People don’t actively return to those press release sections of a website because they’re written in corporate jargon.

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How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t make me read a press release to figure out what’s special about whatever you’re trying to highlight. Steve Gebhardt Steve Gebhardt is the Content Editor of the COED Magazine , one of the fastest growing online publishers in the 18-24 year old market. I’ve read so many bad email press releases.